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Also, the use of electronic communication devices or any other electronic device to text, e-mail, compose, read or send electronic messages or access internet sites while driving a motor vehicle is prohibited. That's fewer than the 36,822 convictions in 2015 and the 35,958 convictions when the law first went into effect in 2014. However, if a driver is stopped for improper lane usage, swerving or weaving in and out of traffic, he says that is a different type of citation.

Messi struck twice in a dramatic victory to take Barcelona to the top of LaLiga. Gibson told the La Liga Weekly Podcast: "If Real Madrid don't win anything, the big question would be, "Will Zidane stay?' Without thinking, we all say, 'Of course he wouldn't".

South Korea said in a statement Wednesday that unspecified parts of THAAD were deployed. The submarine's arrival comes as the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier headed toward the Korean Peninsula for a joint exercise with South Korea. It was denounced by the DPRK as a rehearsal for northward invasion. However, the U.S. warships caused some confusion and attracted mockery when it emerged that they actually sailed in the opposite direction, away from North Korea, after the announcement.

Though hoping for the Sharks to force Game 7, I was left disappointed leaving SAP Center. Leon Draisaitl opened the scoring 50 seconds into the second frame. The Oilers will play Anaheim in the second round. Jannik Hansen's backhand shot after a nice pass from Tierney drifted wide. Danny O'Regan might be ready next season, and Timo Meier got his shot in the post-season, but it could be a few years yet before either is providing the scoring punch up front that San Jose needs to contend.

During an interview with the France 2 television channel, Le Pen said she is not "disappointed" with the first round but she has hope that "we can win and we will win". Melenchon espouses similar policies on worker protection and anti-globalization to those of Le Pen, and pollsters say some of his backer might choose Le Pen in the second round.

Damsteegt said he feels "terrible" for the Wisconsin dairy farmers who approached Trump with concerns about their lack of market opportunities. Trump made the remarks while in the process of signing an executive order on US steel. "I feel our country really gets that this is a critical moment". "We have developed a good relationship with the new administration", he said. "When there's trade discussions we're always concerned and watching what's happening", Smith said.

The May 7 runoff is to be between the populist Marine Le Pen and former French economics minister Emmanuel Macron , and politicians on the moderate left and right immediately urged voters to block Le Pen's path to power. LONDON, April 25 Sterling dipped against the euro on Tuesday, kept under pressure by the single currency's renewed strength as relieved investors turned optimistic on Europe after the first round of the French presidential election.

Without a almost $1 trillion spending bill that covers all government agencies, portions of the government would be forced to shut down on Saturday, which also happens to be Trump's 100 day in office. Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan were embarrassed last month when they had to pull their " Obamacare " replacement bill off the floor without a vote as it became clear it would fail.

According to a report by US-based website " Foreign Policy ", an internal State Department document has shed light on plans to slash U.S. assistance to developing countries including Sri Lanka. "...[USAID] anticipates that the budget proposal will necessitate eliminating 30 to 35 of its field missions while cutting its regional bureaus by roughly 65 percent".

The judge also declared the cooperation agreements with the US‚ Russia and Korea to be unconditional and unlawful‚ and these were set aside. Earthlife Africa, which brought the case, says the judgment vindicates its argument that the process government has followed was unlawful.

It also comes as Trump tries to put the best face on his first 100 days in office, a period in which the president signed a variety of executive orders to roll back Democratic policies but has been defined by an absence of any major legislative achievements.

The announcement comes as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson accused Iran of "alarming ongoing provocations" to destabilise countries in the Middle East as the Trump administration launched a review of its policy towards Tehran. That includes Iran's support for Houthi rebels in Yemen, its backing for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and for Islamic militant groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Edwards was a friend who happened to be at the home at the time the flames broke out. "We know that when we lose one of our own, the community mourns with us", Nigro said. New York Fire Department personnel stand outside the scene of a deadly fire Sunday, April 23, 2017, in Queens Village in New York that killed multiple people, including children.

Republicans hold 52 seats. But on the heels of the failed GOP health care effort, Republicans are hoping to avoid an embarrassing episode as they try to prove they are a party that can govern effectively. It's important to prevent human trafficking, gangs like MS-13 from coming into the country, the flow of illegal drugs, illegal immigration, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said.

Iraqi forces on Tuesday launched a fresh push southwest of Mosul to retake the Hatra area, which includes a United Nations -listed World Heritage site, a statement said. USA -backed Iraqi forces declared eastern Mosul "fully liberated" in January, after officially launching the operation to retake the city in October.

Purnama was Jakarta's first Christian governor in half a century and the first ethnically Chinese governor. Incumbent Gov. Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama is on trial for blasphemy and hundreds of thousands protested against him in Jakarta , deriding his Chinese ancestry and calling for him to be imprisoned or killed.

The South's trumpeting of progress on setting up the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, comes as high-powered USA military assets converge on the Korean Peninsula and as a combative North Korea signals possible nuclear and missile testing.

South Korea says key parts of a contentious US missile defense system have been installed a day after rival North Korea showed off its military power. Cmdr. Jang Wook from South Korean navy public affairs said there was no plan for a drill. Alternatively, a long-range missile test could show North Korean progress toward being able to fire a weapon at America.

Mr Flynn, a retired US Army lieutenant general, may have also violated the law because Department of Defence contracts prohibit former military officers from taking payments from foreign sources without prior approval. She had been scheduled to testify weeks ago before the House intelligence committee, but that hearing was canceled. "And we've received no documents relating to his termination as national security adviser for concealing his discussion with the Russian ambassador ", Cummings ...

John Moritz of the Arkansas Democrat-G. "Apparently the reason the state made a decision to proceed with these eight executions is that the "use by" date of the state's execution drug is about to expire", he wrote. Mr Lee's lawyers had also issued several appeals centered on issues with Mr Lee's trial: His first lawyer, for instance, showed up to the courtroom drunk .

Although the telecom firm said it had repaired its network by Monday afternoon, services remained sporadic throughout Monday night and Tuesday morning and only returned to normality in the afternoon. At 0805 GMT, Safaricom's shares were down 0.3 percent at 19.15 Kenyan shillings ($0.186) on the Nairobi Securities Exchange. The outage brought back fears raised by the National Treasury past year that M-Pesa may have such a dominant role in the economy as to pose a fiscal risk to Kenya.

The bus was trying to overtake another vehicle when it smashed into the oncoming tanker, said Leornard Kimaiyo, police chief for the southern town of Kibwezi. Be Civil - It's OK to have a difference in opinion but there's no need to be a jerk. Stay on topic - This helps keep the thread focused on the discussion at hand.

Gentiloni has strongly criticized protectionist trade policies, such as those proposed by Trump's administration, that advocate shielding a country's domestic industries from foreign competition by taxing imports. Trudeau declined to answer a question on the topic. Gentiloni today is in Ottawa to finish preparing for the G7 summit he will host in Taormina, Sicily, in May with a meeting with Canadian leader Justin Trudeau.

Mattis said Washington would "engage with Russian Federation diplomatically" whereever possible. A senior military official earlier Monday told reporters that Moscow was handing out machine guns to Taliban fighters. He is the first member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet to visit Afghanistan. Taliban militants have gained territory this past year, as NPR has reported , and the top US commander in Afghanistan recently described the fight against the Taliban as a "stalemate".

The verdict further noted that Maryam "contributes a substantial sum of money towards her share in the joint expenses incurred by her grandmother on behalf of other members of the Sharif family residing in the compound". He demanded that Sharif stand down until the fresh investigation against him and his sons was concluded. The corruption controversy erupted when the 11.5 million secret documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which documented the offshore dealings of numerous ...

Odisha Board of Secondary Education (BSE) will release the class 10 HSC and Madhyama results 2017 tomorrow on the official results website . Go to the official website bseodisha.nic.in. In 2016, around 6,01,348 students took the HSC examinations , which were held at around 2,882 centres across Odisha . According to the district wise, the Balasore spotted in the top position with the highest pass percentage of 91.58%.

For all other Canadian lumber companies, there's a almost 20% duty imposed on exports to the U.S. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told President Trump on Tuesday that he would defend his nation's interests in softwood lumber. "But we can't get trampled by this guy [Trump]". "NAHB estimates that the annual impact of the 19.88 percent duty, if in effect throughout 2017, would be a loss of $498.3 million in wages and salaries for USA workers, $350.2 million in taxes and other ...

The move comes after at least 80 people, including dozens of children, were killed in the 4 April attack in Khan Sheikhoun, a rebel-held town in Idlib province in northern Syria. One official said the sanctions will primarily target weapons manufacturers believed to aid Assad's use of chemical weapons. On April 7, President Donald Trump ordered the U.S.

Reporters Without Borders said the deterioration was sharpest in democracies, citing the rise of strongmen in countries like Turkey and Russian Federation. " The rate at which democracies are approaching the tipping point is alarming for all those who understand that, if media freedom is not secure, then none of the other freedoms can be guaranteed ", RSF Secretary-General Christophe Deloire said.

But South Korea's ministry of national defense said that South Korea and the United States had been working "to secure the swift operational capability of the THAAD system against North Korea's nuclear and missile threat". "The fearless artillerymen mercilessly and satisfactorily hit the targets and the gunshots were very correct, he said, adding that they showed well the volley of gunfire of our a-match-for-a-hundred artillery force giving merciless punishment to the hostile forces", KCNA ...

Ross, who appeared at the White House press briefing, took a hard line against Canadian trade policies regarding dairy and lumber - the two commodities at the heart of the trade dispute. A handful of Wisconsin dairy farmers whose Canada market evaporated in a trade dispute were weighing offers from new buyers on Tuesday, but others were running out of time before an expiring contract risked putting them out of business.

New duty on softwood lumber and talk from US President Donald Trump on making changes to dairy trade between the US and Canada has farmers in Alberta concerned. "The two leaders agreed on the importance of reaching a negotiated agreement, recognizing the integrated nature of the industry between Canada and the United States".

He started off his segment by mocking the first daughter, chiding that "Ivanka Trump had come to a high-powered conference in Berlin to champion the cause of working women, but she came with baggage- her father's baggage". She's presumably speaking of Trump's infamous comments about grabbing a woman by the pussy, or the numerous sexual assault allegations against him. "He encouraged me and enabled me to thrive", Trump said.

The High Electoral Board announced in a written statement its decision to reject three requests by the opposition following a 10-1 vote. Turkey's main opposition party urged the country's electoral board Monday to cancel the results of a landmark referendum that granted sweeping new po.